Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

M.0435
Rosettes

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1874
Collection: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Accession Number: PD.72-1959
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/4 x 7 1/4" (285 x 185 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Rosette pour la / taille-'; 'Rosette/ pour la devant de / la robe - / la conserver bien / platte.' and 'pour l'aigrette-' in unknown hand ; v. 'S9225' and 'lo' in unknown hand

Rosettes

Composition

Rosettes, Fitzwilliam Museum
Rosettes, Fitzwilliam Museum
Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, The Frick Collection
Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, The Frick Collection

This is one of two studies for rosettes to be applied on the dress in Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland [YMSM 106]. 1 The inscription, in French, implies that the dress or the rosettes were made in France (of which there is no other suggestion), or that the dress-maker was French.

Notes:

1: MacDonald 2003 [more] , p. 108, repr. p. 108, pl. 102.

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret